Vista/XP: Place Screenshot into Windows Clipboard

Contributed by davak July 22, 2003  
Tagged: Windows

Using this simple keystroke, you can take a screenshot without any additional software. Free! It’s built into the OS!

Two methods exist for placing a copy of the current screen into the clipboard:

The Print Scrn key takes a screenshot and places it into the clipboard.

Pressing the combination of ALT + Print Scrn places the current active window into the clipboard.

Once your screenshot is in the clipboard it can be pasted and manipulated in any software package.

Please note:
On many laptops, the Print Scrn key is actually Fn+Insert.